Télédésir

by Cindy Coutant, produced by Le Fresnoy

2018

Télédésir

by Cindy Coutant, produced by Le Fresnoy

2018

Digital art

Video art

Environment

Science fiction and Fantasy

Digital art

Video art

Environment

Science fiction and Fantasy

Télédésir was born from this question: what if our remote communication technologies were born out of the desire of being to connect?

Screen, Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

27 minute(s)

Multiple languages

Update : 07/06/2022

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The film takes place in a subtracted world, of which we do not know if it begins or starts again, only populated by snails. From sunrise to sunset, over a slow climb, the animals now aliens plunge us into an experience of an alternative measure: which of another era, of another rhythm, of another body, yet familiar. A space-time where everyone is alike, where the subjects, without gender and without ‘I’, seem indissolubly bound and blend into the elements, articulate and embrace the present.

« Among the works of contemporary art that direct their interest at the biological life surrounding us, the young French artist Cindy Coutant’s short film Télédésir is one of those that most uncompromisingly distances itself from any man-made scale. Wild, expansive and with its antennae tuned in on alien frequencies, Télédésir is a radical blend of monster film and romantic comedy with two snails in the lead roles, any film you could compare it with is light-years away. Dance, death fights, mating rituals, the elements of Coutant’s work are arranged with crystal clear precision, but the trippy humour lifts the psychedelic totality into a century we haven’t even reached yet. »

— CPH:DOX